From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Greg Pavelcak Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 11:05:40 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] Strange Plan9 Reinstallation Phenomonon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8d9d5662-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I had Plan 9 on an IDE hard drive. I decided to go back to FreeBSD, so I installed FreeBSD 4.9 on the same drive as a replacement, making no effort to dual boot, I told BSD to use the whole disk. Then I got a second computer and figured that I can now use either Plan9 or FreeBSD as the spirit moves me. I reinstalled Plan9 on the IDE drive I started with. I deleted the FreeBSD partition in fdisk and let Plan9 use the whole disk. The `copy distribution' part went like lightning and when I rebooted, not only did I have Plan9, but I had the same setup I had a couple days before just before the BSD installation. I've been using the Plan 9 for a little while now, and it seems to be working. My question is do you think I can expect this to work, or is this a real fluke? I had actually done quite a bit with the FreeBSD: building from sources and installing quite a few ports. Thanks Greg